On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 03:57:39PM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote: > ...that maintains compatibility with existing Xen toolstacks. > > Xen toolstacks instantiate PV backends by simply writing information into > xenstore and expecting a backend implementation to be watching for this. > > This patch adds a new 'xen-backend' module to allow individual XenDevice > implementations to register a creator function to be called when a tool- > stack instantiates a new backend in this way. > > To support this it is also necessary to add new watchers into the XenBus > implementation to handle enumeration of new backends and also destruction > of XenDevice-s when the toolstack sets the backend 'online' key to 0. > > NOTE: This patch only adds the framework. A subsequent patch will add a > creator function for xen-block devices. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durr...@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.per...@citrix.com> -- Anthony PERARD _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
